Garment-hanger.



A. L. MANN. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1913.

1,00,76'7, Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anion LYELL MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in rment hangers, and has for its ch' obect the provision of a simple garmenthanger which may be collapsed or folde into. compact form so that it may be conveniently carried in the trunk or valise of a traveler, and which is adaptable for the neat and convenient disposition of garments in hotels and other places lacking any convenient and commodious facilities therefor.

With thisv object in view, the invention consists in the novel garment hanger hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing for illustration thereof.

In said dra wing,-Figure 1 is a plan view I illustrating a number of the improved garment hangers arranged for use upon a garment hanger support. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my invention with as is suitable for the support of a princess dress. Fig. 3 is a similar view of such a hanger with a support having hooks for the reception of the loops of a skirt, and showing in dotted lines the mode of operation of removing the support-engaging hook thereof preparatoryto folding the form for carrying in a trunk or vahse. Fig. 4 is a view showing the hanger folded in compact form for convenience for carrying in a trunk or valise or suit-case. Fi 5 is a detail perspective view illustrating t e manner of garment support hook into'the composition of the hanger. In the 'said drawing, I have illustrated forms of garment hangers as illustrative of the invention, which invention is present in each form and may be in other paiticular forms adapted for the support of particular garments.

In the said drawing, the reference numeral 1 designates the garment support; that is to say, that part of the hanger which directly receives the garment for the support thereof. In Fig. 2 of the drawing this suport is in the form of a plain cylinder suitable for supporting, for instance, a pr a plain. bar such Specification of'Iletters Patent.

ter when 1n use assembling the new rank, n. Y.

cess dress in folded condition thereon. In Fig. 3 this support is a bar or rodprovided with hooks 2 suitable to receive the loops of a skirt to be hung pendent therefrom, and in Fig.- 6 the support consists of the usual form of a coat hanger.

Referring now to Fi drawing the numerals 3 designate arms which may be conveniently constructed of wire hinged or pivoted to the rod 1, for example by means of inter-engaging eyes 4: of the rods 3, and 5 of screw eyes or bolts 6 carried by the rod 1. The free ends of the arms 3, w ich are brought into regisfor the reception of the hanger support hook 7 are bent angularly, as at 8, so that the eyes 9 at the extremities of-said arms may be brought into parallelism and registration so that the hook 7 may be readily assembled in the structure by being passed through the registering eyes, as illustrated in Fig. 5 and made to assume the operative position illustrated, for example, in Fig. 2. It will thus appear that the said hook is readily insertible into the structure arms 3 to move upon the hinge connection with the bar 1 to assume the folded position shown in Fig. provided with an enlargement as an abutment for the eyes 9 of the arms 3, so that the said arms and the bar 1 are properlysuspended from the hook when the or button 10 p PatentedDeoi l, 1M3. Application filedmarch is, 1913. Serial no. 754,%80.

gs. 2 and 3 of the I and may be easily manipulated to permit the 4. The stem of the hook 7 1s latter is connected with a garment hook support, and the registering eyes 9 form what, for convenience, I term a hook rider; that is to say, thewalls of'the two eyes 9-disposed in parallelism present, combined, a wall ofsuch narrowness thatthe hook may be assembled into the structureby passing the free end of the hook through the eyes,

as illustrated in Fig. 5, the curved portion of the hook freely passing through the eyes by a swinging movement, which will be readily understood by reference to said figure of the drawing, the straight or portion, of the hook following along until the hook assumes the position shown in Fig. 2; and the hook may be separated by a reverse mode of operation, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

In disposing the parts of the hanger in the folded condition illustrated in Fig. 4:, it is not necessary that the hook shall be entirelyj separated from both arms, but may be illustrated in Fig. 4 convenient for car 1 of the hook through the hook rider eye, the

left with its hook end in engagement with proximated. This is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

In practice, for economy of space, and this is very desirable because-of the inadequacy of facilities for the proper disposition of garments in many hotels, it is designed that an equipment for garmentv hangers shall have hooks the stems of which are of different length, as shown in Fig. 1, so that when the eye of one of the arms.v This is shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

From the foregoing description, it is obvious that the hanger is a foldable one which may be made to assume the compact form riage by the traveler, and that thehook portion may be readily. assembled in the construction without the manipulation of nuts or like contrivances, but by a mere passing 1, they may be arranged in'close relation, the

garment supporting bars or members thereof being in different horizontal planes so that there will be no of the garments as would be the case if the bars were arranged all on the same plane, as will be obvious. 1

Having thus described my invention, what I.,claim is A garment hanger comprising a garment support, arms pivotally connected therewith to be foldable .thereagainst, said arms provided with horizontalfree extremities having'registering eyes, and a hanger hook with a stem having swivel connection with said eyes, the curved end of said hanger hook being adapted to be passed through said eyes for "assembly hanger.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

curvilinear or hook end riding upon the walls of said eye, and, finally, that when assembled the hook is swiveled in' the eyes so that the garment support 1 and the arms 3 of Figs. 2 and 3 may be turned to different angular positions with relation to the hook stem. This is of material advantage. In many cases hotels and other places of sojourn are not rovided with adequate facili ties for disposing ones garments. Very often the closets or wardrobes are shallow or very little in depth so that garment hangers cannot be received therein supported by a hanger support in parallel relation; that is to say, the depth is not suflicient to accommodate the length of the supporting bar of the hanger or the length of a coat hanger, and this is a serious difficulty. By providing the swivel connection of the hook with the garment supporting portion of the hanger the latter may be turned to difl'erent' angular positions with relation to the hook, so that the ideal parallel relation of the hangers which cannot be obtained in such circumstances may be as near as possible ap- ALIOE LYELL MANN.

WVitnesses:

W. HODGES MANN, RIvEs B. HARDY.

bunching or crowding and disassembly of the the hangers are supported, as shown in Fig. 

